Founded in 1987, we have over 25 years of experience in providing expert environmental consultancy services to individuals, companies and public authorities in Bristol, the South West, across the UK and globally.

We specialise in Contaminated Land Investigation and Remediation, Resource and Energy Efficiency auditing, Ecological Surveys and Mitigation - including bat surveys and Environmental Business Compliance.

A strong regulatory background and close connections to the Environment Agency and Local Authorities means we are well placed to offer advice and guidance on dealing with all your PPC/IPPC, waste and regulatory issues and can give you the best and fully compliant ecology and wildlife surveys; we have also successfully fought and helped overturn declined planning permission applications.

At Abricon we pride ourselves on a track record of delivering sustainable and economic solutions to environmental problems.

See the following pages for details on the services we can offer your business:

• Contaminated Land Solutions
• Business Resilience Solutions
• Carbon and Sustainability Solutions
• Ecological Solutions

Contaminated Land

Development sites are frequently impacted by previous land-use, including potential spillages and leaking storage tanks.

Dealing with historic contamination is entirely possible, not necessarily time-intensive, and does not need to make your project financially unviable.

The Abricon team combine technical expertise with a strong regulatory background, and have extensive experience, both within the UK and on overseas projects. We will offer a completely tailored solution to your contaminated land problems.

Specialist Skills and Capabilities

We have the skills and knowledge to deal with a wide range of contaminants, from heavy metals through to petroleum / diesel products and solvents.

We have extensive experience of dealing with disused filling stations and dealing with ground impacted by above or underground storage tanks. In addition to providing site investigation services and options for cleaning up these sites, we can project manage and provide a watching brief where decommissioning of these sites is required.

We approach contaminated land in a risk based manner. This means that we propose solutions based on the actual risk posed to site users and the wider remedial strategy. This is achieved by our skills in risk assessment and our substantial experience in liaising with the regulators such as the Environment Agency and Local Authority Environmental Health Officers.

Abricon can assist with:

• Pre-aquisition studies

• Desk studies

• Intrusive investigations using trial pitting, window sampling, cable percussion and rotary drilling

• Human health and groundwater risk assessments

• Risks from ground gases

• Acquisition / divestment liability studies

• Remedial options appraisals

• Remediation design and build

• Innovative remedial solutions

• Geotechnical investigations

Business Resilience Solutions

Abricon works with clients to secure the environmental licences, permits and authorisations needed to run their business.

We additionally deliver systems improvements which reduce operational costs, controls risk, adds value to your company’s corporate standing and underpins sustainability.

If you are acquiring a business, you will find our due diligence audit services are sharply focused on business risk and deal value.

Abricon can help with:

• Identifying those facilities which need environmental permits, and those which may be registered as exempt

• The process of registering exemptions

• Applying for and determining your individual permit applications

• Determining which conditions must be met to protect the environment, as required by directives and national policy

• Assistance with changing or surrendering your new environmental permits/ old PPC licences

• Understanding the new permitting system

• Implementing any individual / company specific compliance obligations

Ecological Solutions

Local planning authorities are now under various statutory obligations to take nature conservation into account when determining planning applications.

Abricon will guide you through the planning process ensuring that regulators receive the correct information the first time around, saving you time and money.

Our friendly and experienced ecology team can help with an ecological issue arising from a planning application or development; from the initial phase 1 habitat survey required by the planning authorities, through to protected species surveys, licenses, mitigation and monitoring.